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Dance, Spirituality And Ladders To Nowhere
There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
— Vicki Baum
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Poetry is art and craft, but mainly heart, where sentiment is more important than perfection.
— Trinidad B. Sullivan
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Sufi whirling is a form of dancing worship in Sufism, an Islamic ascetic or mystic tradition that emphasizes the inward search for the divine (similar to yoga and Hinduism). The dance dates to the 12th or 13th century and to the followers of Muslim poet and mystic Rumi.
— From Yogapedia.com
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THE MIND HAS TO LOOK AT ITSELF
The mind is not something that can be looked at with the eyes or grasped with the hands.
The mind has to look at itself.
What we need to do is not to analyze this mental darkness discursively; rather we have to first let the mind rest in a state of complete naturalness or simplicity, just as it is, without falling into distraction.
A state will be soon attained that is free from obvious movements of the mind such as aversion for enemies, unpleasant feelings, or attraction toward pleasant things. This state is also free from the opaque dullness that one…
